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Inside Indianapoli WITH THE RECENT renewal of ‘interest in keys, locks and door chains, I thought it .might behoove mé to check mv motley assortment of 16ck openers. Yike! Why do you suppose anyone in their right mind would want to carry 11 keys when three would do the trick nicely? Surely there are others in’ the same predicament, I told myself. Surely I'm not the only one whose pockets sag ‘under the weight of excess keys, some of which have long: been in the limbo of “*What's this one for?" It's tricky business to go dp to a person and ask fp see their keys. But I had a purpose in mind. A good purpose. I'm all for carrving only the essential number of keys. I'm all for being able to lay my hands on the right key immediately instead of fumbling through an assortment resembling the turnkey's ring at Alcatras. The. first man I -approached Michaelis, truck driver for Coca-Cola. “Sure I know what every one of-my keys is for, Mr. Michaelis said flatly after I explained my mission.
Accounts for All Keys WITH ONE LEG on the running board of his truck, Mr. Michaelis took his key ring and called off: “Garage, locker, home, coke box meters, filing cabinet at the garage, salesroom door, advertising compart-
was Clarence *
- $e "NOW, LET'S SEE'~—Ben Dock didn't. re-
alize he carries laugh, you may
kevs. Don't se in your pocket.
SO many useless
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No Monogram
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ment on the truck and my locker-at-a bowling alley Eight keys all accounted for -and necessary.” My conclusion right then and there was that truck drivers were probably an exception, Two downtown salesmen produced respectively five and six keys. All were for ordinary uses .such as car, home, garage, store, etc.
A guard at the Merchant's bank whipped out a kev ring, with five keys—garage, home, safety ‘box, car and.shed. How about secretaries? My first two contacts had what I.think is an ideal number of kevs. One voung lady had two kevs, one for her apartment and one for the office. The other had two .for her apartment and one for thie office. Girls. take note of this efficiency in the handbag. I'm. sorry’ the girls didn't want to be identified. In the Lemcke building 1 found Maxine Overlease| with 11 keys.” She's also in the secretary class. Miss Overlease insists she has use for 10.- A typewriter case key (she sold the typwriter a year ago)
- could be dispensed with
~Before I left Miss Overlease said she'd think about taking off the makeup kit key,
bag key. Receptionist Aileen Driesbach vin the HumeMansur building showed me seven keys. Two for
her apartmeht, two for luggage, and keys for a safety
box, mail box and office didn’t seem too many Mrs. Harrison G. Platt,
of the building. Right then she decided to return| three Traveller's Aid keys she had been carrying for more than a year. Mrs. the agency. At the State House I spied a pile of keys in front of Ulysses R. Lee at the information desk. Mr. Lee fooled me. True, he had 28 keys but they were property of “the state. Mr. Lee knew which
kev went where, too. On his person he had four kevs. one for his home, one for his locker and two for the State House doors Keys for Many Purposes THE BEST FIND of the day was Ben Dogk,
pharmacist at 930 N. Pennsylvania St. Mr. Dock is I'm sure he has discarded half of his 23 keys by now A key by key description went something like this “Liquor cabinet—hmmm. key to my old duffie bag in the Army—house key—sister's key but she moved a year ago—well, I'll be darned, I don't know-—here's a key to my old house I haven't lived in since I went to the Army—burglar alarm—store Kkey-—narcotic cabinet—register—another cabinéet—stock room-—let's see. oh, ves. key to my old Chevie—three car keys and —guess this one is here just to fill up my chain When I.left his establishment a good 10 minutes after the long count. Mr. Dock was still shaking his head in amazement that he had so many useless keys. I wonder how many other people haul Keys they don't need every day? Do you mind checking your key case? “
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19—The question today 1s whether there was a monogram on the lap robe we hought—we taxpayers, I mean—to warm the feet of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers (Ret.). while he was riding in his royal blue, four-door Fleetwood Cadillac sedan. We paid for this vehicle. too—through war contracts—although we didn't realize it at the time. The fact is a hefty chunk of our war bond money. which we thought was going for fighting planes, bought ultra-modern furniture for the general, pile carpet to soften. his footsteps, four air-conditioned units to keep him cool in the.summer, and a phonograph de luxe to sooth his nerves. The general. of course, didn't drive his sedan himself. We furnished him a sergeant from Bolling Field as chauffeur. We were so generous to the general, in spite of ourselves. that the Senate War Investigating Committee still is trying to discover exactly how he wangled it. It wasn't easv. Gen. Meyers awarded war plane contracts. He also operated via assorted corporate dummies the Aviation Electric Co. and—the sworn evidence shows—whenever he wanted some money, or a. Cadillac, or whatever. he had the president of his corporation write a check, or bring him the cash.
Done by Fancy Bookkeeping
THIS INVOLVED some fancy bookkeeping The £10,000 worth of furniture, rugs and drapes in the general's apartment was listed as “selling expenses. The $700 radio set went down on the books as office equipment. The air conditioners for the general's bedrooms, he called engineering expense. The Cadillac and its lap robe (with or without a monogram) officially was known as company cars and trucks. Bleriot Lamarre, the blond young man who
obviously.
functioned as president sub-contractor for the Bell details of doctoring the books. confirmed the selling prices it ‘turned out that the general already owned one
Aircraft Corp., told the A series of tradesmen
Cadillac, a brown one. But he wanted another and he insisted that it be painted blue. The Capitol Cadillac Co. sold it to him on Dec. 31, 1941—the day before new automobile sales were
frozen—for $2995.70. It also delivered him $116 worth of accessories. “What kind of accessories?” demanded Sen. Homer E. Ferguson of Michigan, the chairman. “Very. few.” testified automobile salesman Vernon M. Knox. “Some anti-freeze, a spare tire and tube and—according to the records——a morfogrammed lap robe.” “What Sen. Ferguson. “No, sir,” replied Salesman Knox.
‘No Monogram,” Wife Says
SO THE AFTERNOON droned on with testimony ahout secret-cash payments to the general from his war. contracting company and finally Sen. Ferguson called a 10-minute recess. The bald-headed general squashed his cigaret. buttoned his gray doublebreasted coat (he's retired now) and hurried across the room to confer with his blond, ex-movie actress
was the. monogram on the robe?” asked “Pig it say Aviation Electric Co.?" “It. did not.”
wife. She happened to be sitting directly behind me. “Dear * said the general, “did that robe have a monogram?’
“Mrs. Meyers blinked her blue eyes-in-thought and said finally that if it did. she didn't remember it “Thanks.” the general replied. This is important, but as a dazed taxpayer, I'm danged if I know why. : :
Just Like England
By Robert C. Ruark
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—As a result of spending a week-end .with a dachshund named Moss Rose. I believe I understand for the first time what's biting
v the British. So does Moss Rose's owner.
“Mossy it just hike England.” she says which is a startling quote to rur. onto in a dark hall Moss is a male dachshund. He has several terrible bruises on his personality. He has a temperament rather like Monte Woolley's approximation of Sheridan Whiteside in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” with overtones of John L. Lewis. The first welt they raised on Mossy's ego was when they named him Moss Rose. a horrible handle to pin on any male. Mossy brooded about this at some length, as a puppy, and began to compensate by snapping at, children. He became the property of a man whose business carried him -to the night clubs, six days a week, and Moss spent most of his time locked up in a coupe, watching the drunks reel by and thinking unpleasant thoughts about everybody outside the car. He be-s came a terrific invert, and masked his lonely isolation with a snarl. Moss today angry. a
1s the only dog I know who is always
‘Dislikes Everybody, Everything
MOSS DISLIKES his mistress and his mistress’ friends. He dislikes the hired man. He dislikes the milkman and the postman and he is contemptuous of Christmas, another dachshund who lives at Moss’ house. He has a rabid hate for cats and other dogs, and automobiles and birds. Mossy sleeps on his back, four feet sticking straight up. If vou walk over and ’ say: “Nice Moss,” or any other pleasantry, he sharls and bares his fangs. Most dogs will open their eves before they snarl, but Moss snarls as a reflex, without
like a man, with his
interrupting his pleasant dreams of chewing on the succulent calves of people. Me has convinced himself that he is a terrible dog. and the snarl is a prop When Moss is occupying the sofa, people do not ! sit on the sofa, nor do they attempt to remove Moss from. the sofa. They stand up.. Even so, Moss continues to growl, Only for one occasion ns he abandon his career of emulating Gyp the ‘Blood. That 1s at mealtimes. When .the dinner gong goes, Mossy arouses. Like a man about to take a dose of quinine. he arranges himself for His act. The act consists ofa oi pleasantness, as phony as some of the tes stimony the Hughes hearing.
Even Despises Himself at Times HE COMES AND SITS by vour side. and he snar no more. He sits up, his forepaws raised in Sans cation, begging for a handout. He cannot mask the naked arrogance in his eyes. and you can see him despising himself for the deliberate fraud. But he sits there, begging. until you feed him a morsel After. if vou should attempt to continue.the playacting, he and takes off your hand at the wrist As 1 say cism. He loved Rosie,
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Rosasharn completed his cycle of cyniand one day Rosi¢ had pups SHe had a terrible time with them, and came back from the hospital in a foul humor. Moss walked over to kiss her and she chewed off half his face, He was so upset he went off his feed, refusing even to bite so much as a chubby child. His mistress fmally had to send him to the hospital for a month, to rebuild his shattered nerves 5 But vou understand what I"'mean about .the Britain analogy. When a. proudly isolated nation, or dog, having built up a permanent bravado, feels betrayed by the old lady and is forced to be pleasant while begging. it sours that nation or dog on:everything. including the giver of the handout
New Look Marlene
HOLLYWOOD, Nov, wearing skirts THAT long. to-call her “Legs.” Gloria ‘Haley, daughter of Jack Drake forget Beverly Tyler, . Dinah Shore's baby will be a Christmas present
Doctors just changed the expected arrival date from Dec 15 to the 25th.
19—Marlene Dietrich is ‘now And to think they used
is making Tom
Team Up for Series
MIKE O'SHEA and the Dead End Kids, Goreey and Hall, have teamed up for a series of personal - appearances. Looks like Clark Gables new star in “Angel's
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By Erskine Johnson
Flight” will he Ava Gardner instead of Deborah Kerr Look alike department: Martha Stewart and Bette Davis. Kathryn Grayson and Johnnv Johhston are cooking up a big radio show a la the Alice” Faye-Phil Harris air series
Dropping ‘Glenn Miller’ Tag TEX BENEKE iy dropping the on his band. Martha O'Driscoll, married to Arthur Appleton, is telling friends she'll never return to the screen. A Broadway- producer is paging Greg Peck and
"Glenn Miller’ tag
-Laraine Day to bring “Angél Street” to New York.
They're touring the.coast in it now.
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“SEC OND SECTION
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BEST-OF-THE-WEEK—' The Road to the Lake" submitted to The Times Amateur Photo contest by C. Molinelli, of Martinsville.
Ee WEDNES DAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1947 |
is the title + this first prize entry
The
picture, snapped in June, |945, was taken with a Medalist roll film camera using Plus X film. Exposure was |/100 second at f. :8. Natural lighting was used
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FRIENDS—This friendly pose of Allen Lee Burke, 3, and Peggy Reed, 2, was submitted by Mrs. Melvin Burke, 735 N. Lynn
St. It won honorable mention. camera with | 16 film was used.
By ART WRIGHT A “lazy” June picture of youngsters on “The Road to the Lake” won first place for C. Molinelli, of Martinsville, in the 15th week of The. Times’ Amateur Photo contest The Martinsville pjcture-snapper will receive. the $5 first prize. Four other photographers earned honorable mention and their entries are
Policeman Hurt In Car Collision
A police officer was injured during the after-dark rush hour perixd vesterday When he was struck by a careat 22d St. and Central - Ave after it had collided with another vehicle at the intersection. The officer, Michael Sheehan, 32. of 702 N. Bancroft St, was cut on the legs He was standing in ‘the center of the intersection directing traffic when the accident happened. car driven north on Central Ave. by A. W. Tyler, 70, of 3431 N Ilifmois St. collided with an eastbound car on 22d St. driven by Theodore Woerner, 57, of 2433 Central Ave. a After the collision the Tyler car careened into a temporary ‘no left turn” sign in- the center of the intersection and then struck the officer. Mr. Tyler was given a ticket, charging him with failure to ohey the officer's signal
State Insurance Men Elect H. C. Phend
Harold C. Phend, Monticello insurance man, today was elected president of the Indiana Associadon of Insurance Agents in the final dav of its convention at the Claypool Hotel. He succeeds Linn 8. Kidd, Brazil, who has served for
two years Other officers are: "A. 'G. Allen. Muncie, first vice president; Glenn
May, Spencer, second :vice president; Harry E. McClain, Shelbyville, re-elected executive secretary, ind George W. Mahoney, Indianapoils, re-elected treasurer.
‘Blind Man Found >
-~An B5-year-old blind
A Kodak
reproduced today. Many photographers continued to bid for recognition in The Times weekly contest which started in August. Pictures of many themes and various sizes were considered by the judges Entries received by midnight Priday or postmarked by tnat time will he judged for the best-of -ihezweek - 0
Hacked to Death HARTFORD, Wash, Nov. (8 (UP) man was found beaten and hacked to death on the living room floor of his small home here today. Tom Warnoch, Snohomish County deputy sheriff, totally
said James Moore blind in one eye and partly blind in the other, had been mur-
dered within the last. 24 hours
Mrs. Mary Tostenson, a neighbor, found the body which had been struck on the head and slashed
across the throat.
WORD-A-DAY
By BACH
PUISSANT
(pu’ T-sant) sou. POWERFUL ; STRONG; MIGHTY, FORCEFUL; VIGOROUS; POTENT; FORCIBLE
‘EM SO HARD, wi Les
REPEATER—Marion G. Parker, Rawls Ave, came through with another ..horiorable mention. Rolliflex, film jos XX; exposure was |/50 second at f, :
The camera
group which will be published in next Wednesday's Times. The best picture of the week again will earn 85 for the entrant. n ” ~ ANYONE MAY TAKE part as long as he (or she) 1s an amateur photographer. An amateur is one whose chief source of income is not derived from photographic work.
Boy's Prayer Lives
After His Death
SYCAMORE. Ill. Nov, 19° (UP) 8ix - year -old Charles Leighty drowned in a lake in Minnesota
last summer, but his friends are
‘helping to make his favorite bed-
time prayer come true Because of his prayer, scores of children in Europe and Japan will have at least a little milk to sup-
plement their meager diets this winter, Last August, the Rev. Wayne
Leighty and his family were vaca-
(tioning at Camp Farthest Out, in
{Minnesota, “Chuckie” drowned in the lake. . His father recalled his young
son's favorite night-time prayer.
“Dear God, take. care of everybody in the world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen."
More than $2000 contributed by friends has been spent on heifers and goats which have been abroad to war-torn lands
Recover 40 Bodies oh In New Zealand Fire
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov. 19 (UP)}—Forty bodies had been recovered today from the
ruins of the Ballantyne department store in Christchurch, N. Z.,, which was swept by fire yesterday.
Marlene Gets Medal
WEST. POINT, N. Y.. Nov. 19 (UP)--Movie actress Marlene Dietrich was presented with a “medal of freedom” yesterday by Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, commandant of the U. 8S. Military Academy, in recognition of her service in en-| tertaining troops during the war,
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Scene Wins Photo Prize, t Snow’ Gets Recognition |
HONORABLE MENTION—This unposed-photo o! Sharron Butler, 3217 E. North St., won recognition fo William -F. Frobenius, 1732 N. Leland St. A Perfe
camera and Plus X film were used.
5922 FIRST SNOW-—Michael Workman, in
his first snow at the age of 2, was the model for Mrs. Ellen-Boykin, 6737 Ferguson St. Tha camera was a Twin Reflex, film was Veri- _ chrome, exposure was | /50 second at f. :22,
There 1s no “restriction on the er's name, address, telephone nur number of .pictures an individual ber, type camera and film use may submit in one week." And shutter speed, diaphragm openii photographers may enter as many and type lighting. weeks as they wish. Prints may, All entries become the prope: be of any size but they must be in of The Indianapolis Times and t! black and white to allow the best decision of the judges is final. reproduction. Mail or bring pictures to: Amate On the back of each picture Photo Contest, Indianapolis Tim: Indiarrapolis
Jail Smuggler Gets b Months
was a
Copies Elizabeth ‘Wedding Waltz’
ay Nov. 19 (UP) Dancing teacher Arthur Murray to-
day glided through a “wedding waltz" he copied from the steps of RICHMOND, Nov. 19 (UP)-"' Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Kentucky man, who. tried to aid
Mountbatten as they danced in celebration of their betrothal. Mr. Murray said he got the waltz from pictures of the princess and Jail cell ‘was foiled last week, w her flance dancing and diagrams of under their steps drawn by a guest at the months palace party. “Some of the sweeping twirls had to be shortened a little,” he said, but the essential steps are just the way -they were performed by the princess and Philip.”
jailbreak plan by saw blades
smuggling hac
into a Wayne Coun
sentence to serye .a si
term’ today Herschell Sandusky, 18, Mt. Ve non, Ky, was fined $100 and se tenced to the Indiana State Far when he appeared in City Cou” yesterday, charged with aiding i ke S lan attempted break. Sandusky admitted he put t}
WAA to Sell 100 Cars saw blades in a loaf of cheese con
signed to a prisoner. But a turnk At Atterbury Tomorrow’ urnke refused to let i A sale of 100 automobiles includ-' ®t the prisoner have th
cheese unless it was sliced. Slicin ing jeeps, trucks and pleasure Cars'ii revealed the blades
declared war surplus will be held at s—
Camp Atterbury tomorrow, the Wa; Th Die 'L Assets. Administration announced ree e in eaps today.
Off Golden Gate Bridge
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 19 (UP -Three persons jumped to thei deaths from the Golden Gate an San Prancisco Bay bridges withi the past 24 hours to set a new rec.
The vehicles may be inspected at Camp Atterbury today and tomorrow.” It" will be a “spot sale’. bid Only World War II veterans are entitled to Purchase these vehicles.
lord today Still Waiting Weather Meyer WATSON LAKE, British Colum- salesman, bia, Nov. 19 (UP)~~Clifford Evans bridge rail before his delivery truc! and George Truman, round-the- helper could stop him early yesterworld flivver fliers, said today they day would attempt to fly on to Ft, Nel- Later a hat. coat, vest and pai: son, British Columbia, as soon as Of glasses identified as those o. weather permits. William K. Powell, 60, a San Fran: srt tt Aes mn cisco attorney, were found on the SOPRANO TO GIVE RECITAL Golden Gate Bridge apd a search Miss Marian Thomas, soprano, was begun for his body. He was the pupil of Miss Elma Igelman, will 86th person to leap from the span. (give a recital ih Terre Haute this, Monday night Lugo Winfield, 52, |evening for Tota Bta chapter of Oakland nurseryman, jumped from Sigma Alpha Iota, music sorority. | the Golden Gate Bridge.
Brazer. 56-vear-old mea’ leaped over the Ba:
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